Details of Fortuna personified on coins
Fortuna is the female personification of Fortune. She is normally shown draped and holds a rudder (sometimes resting on a globe) and a cornucopia. Other attributes associated with Fortuna are an olive-branch, a patera (dish) or a wheel.
Coin inscriptions often present her as Fortuna Redux (‘Fortune the Bringer-back’) who ensures that the emperor returns safely from his travels.
Attributes
- Draped
- Holds rudder/cornucopia
- Olive branch/wheel/patera
Wikipedia derived information
Fortuna was the goddess of fortune and personification of luck in Roman religion.
She might bring good luck or bad: she could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of Justice, and came to represent life's capriciousness. She was also a goddess of fate: as Atrox Fortuna, she claimed the young lives of the princeps Augustus' grandsons Gaius and Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire. Her father was said to be Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful.
As Annonaria she protected grain supplies. June 11 was sacred to her: on June 24 she was given cult at the festival of Fors Fortuna..
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna
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